it's america the arabs approve the humanitarian and the on al-jazeera. play an important role protecting it would kill him or ringback. 'd president joe biden raises a cap on the u.s. refugee colter ending the tramp iran's record low numbers. fully back to watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead india fast approaches 20000000 confirmed cases of coronavirus their fears of real number of deaths could be much higher than was being reported after almost 3 decades of marriage

billionaire philanthropist spill and melinda gates said getting divorced and 500 years since the spanish conquest of mexico a local group is staging their own symbolic invasion across the atlantic. the. us president joe biden has finally raised the cap on refugees entering the country despite an early decision to keep the limit imposed by the trumpet ministration more than 62000 people can now be admitted to the u.s. this year out from $15000.00 the biden administration faced widespread criticism after it said it would maintain the previous limits mike hanna has more from washington. well it's a complete turnaround by president biden the massive u. turn a few weeks ago he was insisting the cap would stay at 15000 as a stablish by the trumpet ministration but now in a memorandum to the department of state he says that this cap will be lifted to

$62.00 and a half 1000 now he says the change of mind came because the $15000.00 figure that he'd agreed to was always an indefinite one that he was going to take further advice from colleagues and various departments about that particular figure but the major reason in all likelihood is the immense pressure that was brought to bear by members of his own democratic party there was absolute fury at the fact that president biden chose to stick with that 15000 cap but now you've got a cap of 62500 but there's a caveat with that the president says that in all possibility this cap will not be reached by the end of this fiscal year which is october simply because he says there is not enough staff in departments like homeland security this he says is a consequence of the previous administration's pruning of various departments so although the cap as been increased the president saying that it may not be filled

but he then adds there will be an even higher cap in the next fiscal year 2122 and that cap will be over 120000 refugees allowed to enter the united states. india is fast approaching 20000000 confirmed coronavirus cases after recording a tossed straight day of more than 300000 infections 24 patients have died after yet another hospital run out of oxygen the devastating surge has led to the deaths of at least 40000 people in just the past 2 weeks medical experts say the real numbers may be up to 10 times higher correspondent elizabeth random has more from new delhi. relatives of patients who died when this hospital's oxygen supply ran out overcome with grief. already. my boy had recovered 75 percent oxygen was available he would have survived but without oxygen

last night he died and the. others vent their anger at hospital staff in the state of karnataka one man said his brother called him at midnight asking for help. because a call at midnight that is not getting his oxygen supply he got married just 2 months ago now who look after his family. the karnataka is one of india's richest states but also one of the worst affected few places in the country have been spared by the 2nd wave of the virus the capital new delhi set up its 1st oxygen generation plant after more than 50 patients died when their supply ran out . don't depend and will bear so in the us where we really are completely dependent on supply chains and cylinders then these problems are bound to days it is a great idea to overcome that problem you have created an oxygen generation plant here in simple words it is a kind of oxygen concentrator only with greater capacity. oxygen

concentrations continue to arrive along with other international aid trains are being used to transport cryogenic tankers with liquid oxygen to those states hardest hit by the virus the government to expand the vaccination program to include everyone above the age of 18 but there are shortages of doses to. people have been waiting in a line outside the center for hours the vaccines arrived late and the process is taking much longer than expected and that's only leading to more frustration for people standing in queues where probably social distancing isn't possible. gladwin rollitt like hundreds of others waited for more than 3 hours for his jab i feel. the center is the main issue because people have been waiting here since morning. but they have been here like. 9 o'clock and now we are getting you know are going

to be getting in some science vaccinations were delayed because of a lack of health care workers to administer them to ease the pressure on the health care system and the u.s. supreme court has asked the government to consider imposing and nationwide lock down but not before making arrangements for india's hundreds of millions of daily wage earners who must work every day to survive elizabeth purana al-jazeera new delhi. dr ravi miley is the managing director of radix health care hospital in new delhi he's also the former general secretary of the indian medical association explains how overwhelmed hospitals decide who gets assistance when beds are scarce we try to signal the patients in trip to get to get a number one can get that he is not requiring in new york season and there will be unnecessary. interest. very did the patients into. one segment is the norm requiring work season and the other segment is requiring locks

easily and critical carrington said good treatment so. treating patients who are requiring the season to get the sick list of the patients you're giving them the fairly conservations they're taking care of pool and yet explaining them the warning signs when they have suppose. beautiful being that global hospital in case the doxygen ition decreases the checking by the spirit to meter so they are checking regularly in good stead in the uk season is in their degrees is decreasing or can reach it is a new high or the are getting some blueness on their lips or meal so we tell them certain warning signs when they are rushed to the hospital otherwise we are taking care of them and pull the other segment of the patients those who are needing rock season and games that are critically sick only those fish and being admitted right now. australia's prime minister has promised to review

a temporary ban on travelers from india including its own citizens the most widespread outrage including accusations of racism flights from india were also suspended because of the surge uncovered $1000.00 infections there scott morrison says it's highly unlikely any travellers breaking border rules will face hosh prison sentences off i guess we will constantly review those it's implies to the 15th of march that's what the bar security officer on board the health minister is and we have made that time that sarah advice to ensure that we can prepare for the repair that we had to start soon after the 15th of my that will take the health advice on that we're already seeing and how it springs the number of confirmed cases starting to come off that's what we want to see over the next couple of weeks the in the last flights that we saw coming we had one a night one a night of those who arrived had had calvin. pakistan meanwhile is closing its land

borders with iran and afghanistan to stop the spread of any new mutations of the virus the restrictions come into effect tuesday night it's also cutting international flights south african and brazilian variants were recently detected in southern sindh province a corona virus outbreak in neighboring india has raised fears of a spike in the number of new infections in pakistan. 2 chinese covered 1000 vaccines seen a farm and see novak biotech are under review by the world health organization for emergency use if approved they'll be the 1st jobs developed and produced in asia to get world wide recognition david palin reports from hong kong it's become a way of life around the world for more than a year now face masks lock downs and closed borders and many countries are still battling the spread of qubit 19 some with record numbers of infections and. with an easily transmissible virus that knows no boundaries that seeds have become the main

food groups to effectively slow down the surge of new cases. china where the virus 1st surfaced at the end of 2019 has been developing and administering several vaccines but they have yet to be approved by the world health organization. by. which the. patients. write our or it is rising. according to china's foreign ministry that scene assistance is being provided to 80 countries with exports to more than 40 others but it is eager to get w.h.o. approval for the 2 chinese vaccines it would open the door for overseas travel although with caution as the an occupation efforts to hop around the world vaccine approvals could be laying the groundwork for what could be seen as a global vaccine road map where the shot you get could determine which countries

you can travel to the european union is considering a vaccine passport system where only certain approved vaccines qualify which means those inoculated with the chinese made doses would be barred from entry. into great . market. trade. courses or that the show or it or the show of labor and also. try are as always for investment. but experts say approval could also pose a dilemma once china formally joins the global supply chain and collaboration is like kovacs to supply poor countries it's all need to ramp up production that has to fulfill international commitments and its own domestic targets. so far not even

20 percent of china's $1300000000.00 people have been vaccinated devika pollan hong kong in other world news colombia's finance minister has resigned after days of protest against proposed tax increases left at least 17 people dead they've been calls for more mass demonstrations this week despite present of undue care withdrawing the plan it was heavily criticised for punishing the middle class at a time of economic crisis kitty has more from bogota. protesters of a teen 2 major victories since the start of the protests 6 days ago yet those victories have not been enough to quell people's anger on the streets so much so that the leaders of the national strike have announced another major day of demonstrations on the way in stay across the country saying that they have a long list of demands and now is time to continue putting pressure on the

government unfortunately it has also now been confirmed that at least 17 people have died since when the stay 16 protesters in one policeman and that the real death toll might be even higher the human rights organizations here in colombian internationally are accusing the police for much of this violence saying that the police has been illegally using firearms accusing them also of illegal detentions in a long list of abuses on the other hand the government and in particular the minister of defense on monday said that the it wasn't simple protesters that were responsible for some of the looting and the destruction of public properties that we've seen in past days but that instead this was a coordinated the plan by a legal armed groups operating in the country so this was bonded it is lose their.

jobs and have developed premeditated. financed by dissident groups through the. group who seek to destabilize some regions particularly the defense minister cited the intelligence information but didn't offer any further evidence and these comments will most likely further anger protesters on the streets in a protest that has gone well beyond anger against tax hikes and has become a national outcry against rising unemployment poverty and inequality that was sparked by the coronavirus and the government's response to it. still ahead on al-jazeera 19 argentina on trial over section abuse at a school for deaf children and a tech showdown at the game squares off against apple in court over unfair trading practice.

it's time for the perfect gentlemen who went sponsored point qatar airways ally once again still no shortage of heat across much of the a middle east but we have got some rather wet weather to northern parts of the region a fair bit of cloud just around 30 easing over towards the black sea the caspian sea in nature some wet weather there into northern parts of iran easing over towards afghanistan as we go on into were wed and stay well iran becomes a little more active just around the caucasus so we could see some snow here over the higher ground in that rain just draped over towards that's an eastern side of turkey still plenty of warmth just around the levant getting up into the other the mid to high twenty's for many maybe touching 30 degrees celsius around that eastern side of the mediterranean heat inland 40 celsius to kuwait to 39 in baghdad not to

fall is just shy of that here in doha with a high of around $37.00 celsius further south as generally try we have seen flooding rains leads east in parts of yemen western areas could still see a few showers as we go on through the next day or so joining up with that the shabby rain that we have around the theo paean highlands and those showers continue all the way across into the gulf of guinea so heavy showers continue across attention there in northern parts of mozambique madina see a little bit of what weather grassy making its way towards southern parts of south africa. qatar airways. killing the debate you don't see this and until 5 you will voice your only issue no to the media will mr bin true story no topic is off the table why in the world would we humanize an individual domestic terrorist this was an illegal occupation of a country what they're doing is they're removing or just

a store in the street where a global audience becomes a global community on al-jazeera. the. the. top stories on al-jazeera india has now confirmed over 20000000 coronavirus cases after recording a 13 straight day of more than 300000 infections the overall death toll has now topped 220000. u.s. president joe biden has raised a cap on refugees entering the country despite an early decision to keep the limit imposed by the trumpet ministration more than 62000 people can now be admitted this year up from $15000.00 and colombia's finance minister has resigned after days of

protest against proposed tax increases left at least 17 people dead have been calls for more mass demonstrations this week there's a spike president even took a withdrawing the power. to argentina now our 2nd child has taught it on the systematic sexual abuse of deaf children at a school run by the roman catholic church 2 priests and a god now have already been sentence now 9 more accuse will take the stand including 2 nuns daniel shy mary or someone a size. 20 former students from the antonio provolone institute in the western province of mendoza have already found the courage to speak out it was their testimonies that helped put 2 priests nicola karate. in prison in 2019 both for more than 40 years.

now they'll again have to bring up those painful memories as 9 more accused to put on trial the charges against them including sexual abuse and corruption of minors that ended with. gamblers who through much of their lives they couldn't communicate because they didn't have sign language school prohibited it so they couldn't describe what happened to them then no one believed them. not until a sign language teacher reported it in 2016 the accused this time include 2 nuns 4 former directors of the institute a psychologist and a cook all who deny the charges against them lawyers for the victims say they have strong evidence and are confident they'll get convictions. in looking. they tell you what no mother or father wants to know. that your child has been abused for long time. the argentine pope francis has called child abusers ravenous wolves who must prepare for divine justice but victims and those

battling on their behalf say their case is part of a wider problem in argentina and the around the world that the church authorities won't face what they're accused of and they will remember the. mass unit in the 1st thing that has to happen is what the united nations said in 2040 and 70 a catholic church must stop systematic cover ups of the evidence i mean because as long as they're doing that yes there will be more victims. to prove the law institute has since been closed but many questions about what went on behind those gates still remain. what the 9 are accused of what the 2 priests of already being convicted of represents for many a crime even more heinous because the children were death because they were perceived to be more vulnerable therefore the exploitation of trust by those responsible for looking after them seems to be even greater. much of the trial will

be conducted virtually as the covered 19 pandemic continues to devastate argentina with nearly $200.00 witnesses scheduled to testify many of them requiring sign language interpreter as it could take up to a year a year exposing deep wounds that some must face and others would rather avoid. daniel schorr in their odyssey era one of cyrus. the u.k.'s hellsing the 1st meeting of g 7 foreign ministers in 2 years friends foreign secretaries bringing together counterparts from 7 nations including the us canada japan and germany the us secretary of state antony blinken has held sideline talks with his british counterpart the pair singled out russia and china for breaking international law. it is not our purpose to try to contain china or to hold china down what we are trying to do is to uphold the international rules based order. and when

any country. china or otherwise takes actions that challenge or or undermine or seek to erode that rules based order and not make good on the commitments that they've made. to that order we will we will stand up and defend the order what's going to change is russia's behavior again as a p 5 member of the security council against the basic norms of international law whether it's the brinkmanship and the saber rattling on the border with ukraine whether it's the cyber attacks or attacks on the misinformation or indeed the poisoning of alexina valmy which was not just a human rights abuse but a chemical use of chemical weapons weapons all on russian soil taliban fighters have attacked an army outpost in far province in southwest afghanistan killing at least 7 soldiers and capturing another a bomb has also exploded near a school in the same province wounding 24 people many of them students afghanistan

is bracing for more violence after many firsts a previously agreed deadline for all foreign troops to leave the country. at least 30 people have been killed by gunmen in eastern book enough fossil the attack happened in come one jerry province near the border with me share the government says gunmen surrounded a village and when towcester house killing people and setting homes on fire. that took 2 tech giants are facing off in court in a case that could reshape the digital marketplace the apple versus epi games showdown centers of on the dominance of the app store one of the places where ethics popular fortnight game can be downloaded apple charges devout this 30 percent commission something epic says amounts to a monopoly and began again as more. it's being billed as one of the most important legal cases in apple's history at stake is the company's control of how games an abscess downloaded within their ecosystem when epic the makers of fortnight tried

to go it alone by making the game available outside the app store apple remove them the new violence of apple's rules and cut the i phone makers off from lucrative commissions epic says the app store a cornerstone of apple's income amounts to a monopoly the company is abusing absent the crown jewel. and this is something they're not taking away well you know who is really a mac. aggressively and that's why a lot of the gems in this court cases was all the testimony that comes out. while i think games may be the 1st to take apple to court the company has been criticized in the past for its dominance in the developer world during a congressional hearing in april and both apple and google face questions over domination and lack of competition in just the 1st 3 months of this year users are estimated to have spent $21000000000.00 on apps from apple's app store and around $11000000000.00 on apps from google's clay store but there are billions not

millions and that's 40 percent higher than last year this is a huge business and it's growing and it's growing fast there's nothing wrong with that but what's wrong is if we don't have competition the central question in this case will be if apple is a monopoly is it abusing its power the ruling made by a lone judge could have consequences for the entire digital market the trial is expected to last 3 weeks and gallica al-jazeera. 2 of the world's top philanthropists saw splitting up bill and melinda gates say they've decided to end their marriage chapter 27 years in that time they've given billions of dollars to charity to say they'll keep working together at the bill and melinda gates foundation the non just private charitable organization in the world it's committed $1750000000.00 towards the fines against covered 19 ben souce case is a grantee of the gates foundation he says the couple have transformed the way the

chart of organizations operates. it's enormously consequential in it in that it is. directly impacts the most important one tropic foundation in the world and bill and melinda gates are probably the most public the most prominent gwen tipis in the world so it's it's enormously consequential event i don't think we get know what those consequences will be the gates foundation really is the high water mark of a kind of technocratic data driven approach that's defined philanthropy really for the last 2 decades you know it's it strikes us as being almost the norm but for quite a while last half century there really was not a big tradition of engaged living donors who utilize their.

business competencies and interim door intra nouriel. talents and channeled them towards philanthropy and bill gates was a real innovator in that respect and he created a massive bureaucracy you know close to 2000 staff members all over the world directed towards global health and the best pick in the us here as you cation and so it really was this incredibly powerful philanthropic instrument that they created and in many respects created together the gates foundation became a kind of. representation of their marriage. small group of indigenous mexicans are on their way across the atlantic for a symbolic invasion of spain the 7 members of the zapatistas aami of national liberation a mocking 500 years since the spanish conquest of their country is apathy on

tourbillion 27 years ago but have since mellowed into a political group and as manual rapido reports their mission is a peaceful one. it's a voyage that began only a few weeks ago in southern mexico but for 7 members of mexico's supp at the still army of national liberation it's a journey 500 years in the making. after travelling 1000 kilometers over land they prepared a small flotilla of canoes for a transatlantic voyage the delegation is code named squadron for $21.00 and their mission is a symbolic conquest of europe that's going to stop at a moscow must not let us go we want to learn more how those of the worlds um we want to listen we want to share we want to find out how it is so we can login. in the mexican capital supporters of the militant socialist collective known as the south but the stas gather to wish safe travels to the would be conquerors. is

a trip that has its 1st stop in europe and includes a visit to 30 countries the intention is to also arrive in other continents. after leading a brief armed rebellion in 1994 in southern mexico this up at the stars have often been characterized as a militant separatist group though the collective has since evolved into more of a political organization that places an emphasis on the rights of indigenous people activists say they hope demonstrations like these will dispel rumors about the sup at the stub rebel collective and teach more people about the history of mexico's revolutionary movements organizers here in mexico city encouraged demonstrators to build their own paper boats adjuster that both symbolizes the 1st arrival of spanish conquistadores and the return voyage by sup at these the activists now 5 centuries. that means that as the 7 member armada of sup at the start competes the doors prepared to set sail for the old world they were cheered on by indigenous

activists. in the fight in the resistance and so away we believe a different world is possible. event organizers see beyond the symbolic conquest be hope this action will help inspire a global awareness for environmental and social progress through a more open dialogue between cultures. money will dry up a little al-jazeera mexico city. hello again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera india has now confirmed over 20000000 coronavirus cases after recording a 13 straight day of more than 300000 infections the death toll has now topped 220000 overall u.s. president joe biden has raised the cap on refugees entering the country despite an early decision to keep the limit imposed by.